Vocabulary 12/16

Fill Flash: A photographic technique used to brighten deep shadow areas, typically outdoors on sunny days

Documentary Photographer: A popular form of photography used to chronicle significant and historical events

Magnesium Flare: A pyrotechnic technique (using magnesium) that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion

Ghost lines

Black and White

Vocabulary 12/2

Ambrotype: A photograph that creates a positive image on a sheet of glass using the wet plate collodion process.

Tintype: A photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of iron coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion

Heliography: The photogenic process invented by Joseph  Nicephore Niepce around 1822, which he used to make the earliest known permanent photograph from nature

Daguerrotype: Photographic process in which an image is formed on a silvered metal plate, then in subdued light the plate was exposed to halogen fumes and transported to a camera via a light-tight plate holder

Photoshop

Metadata: Data that usually describes other data

DPI: Dots per inch; A measure of spatial printing or video dot density, in particular the number of individual dots that can be placed in a line within the span of 1 inch

PPI: Pixels per inch; A measurement of the resolution of devices in various context

Weekly Vocabulary 12/2

Fisheye: An ultra wide angle-lens that produces strong visual distortion to create a wide panoramic image

Macro: A lens suitable for taking photographs unusually close to the subject 

Telephoto: A lens with with a longer focal length than standard, giving a narrow field of view and a magnified image